2-4 Fatality Rates for Selected Modes: 1985-2007

2-4 Fatality Rates for Selected Modes: 1985-2007

Notes: Air carrier data were smoothed using an exponential
smoothing model, with a weight of 0.945 to reduce the year-to-year
fluctuations. Air carrier fatalities resulting from the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks include only those persons onboard aircraft. All
2006 data are revised. 1999 and 2003 data for general aviation fatalities and
rates, 1997 data for passenger car occupants fatality, and 1985 data for VMT
are revised.

Sources: Passenger car occupants,
Light-truck occupants, Large-truck occupants, and Motorcycle ridersU.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2007,
table 7 to 10, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov as of October
2009. Air
carriers and General aviationNational
Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of
Aircraft Accident Data U.S. Air Carrier Operations and U.S. General Aviation, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/ as of April 2008 and
September 2009 as reported in U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and
Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, tables 2-9 and 2-14, available at
http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/ as of
October 2009.